2018 Year in Review

December 27, 2018

2018 Year in Review

2018, the year that felt like ten. Time hopped and jogged and stood still, twisted me all around, chewed me up and spat me out with every horrible update of the news cycle.

Still, this year wasn’t all bad! I gave my first keynote, saw some of my code open-sourced, and attended a Frida Kahlo exhibit at the V&A. I started my year with istio and kernel crashes, progressed to large Kubernetes cluster operations, and finished by starting a new perf project. I traveled, gardened, donated, baked, wrote, danced, built a CPU out of logic gates for funzies, and sipped tea. I ended up on this weird HuffPost list. And, oh yeah, I went through a teensy acquisition.

The New York Botanical Garden

In my 2017 review post, I said I wanted to do more lower level systems work, technical talks, and leisure reading. I’ve done that. For 2019, I’d like to find a balance between sharing my excitement over learning new things and broadcasting my already-considerable technical knowledge. I’m very bad at self-advertisement.

Alice Goldfuss

Alice Goldfuss is a systems punk currently helping GitHub run their cutting-edge container platform. She loves kernel crashes, memory design, and performance hacks.

Alice has consulted on some books (Docker: Up & Running, Effective DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering vol 2), presented at some conferences (SREcon, Velocity, Container Summit), and run some others (LISA17, DevOps Days Portland). You can follow her on Twitter (@alicegoldfuss), but you’ll probably regret it.